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I've been looking forward to using bcachefs as I had a few bad experiences with btrfs. Is bcachefs more-or-less ready for some use cases now? Does it still sup

• zaarn 7y ago
  To my knowledge, caching layers are supported but require some setup and don't have much documentation to setup rn. If all you need is a simple root FS that is CoW and checksummed, bcachefs works pretty good, in my experience. I've been using it productively as a root and home FS for about two years or so.
• ZoomZoomZoom 7y ago
  It's quite usable, but of course, do not trust it with your unique unbacked-up data yet. I use it as a main FS for a desktop workstation and I'm pretty happy with it. Waiting impatiently for EC to be implemented for efficient pooling of multiple devices. Regarding caching: "Bcachefs allows you to specify disks (or groups thereof) to be used for three categories of I/O: foreground, background, and promote. Foreground devices accept writes, whose data is copied to background devices asynchronously, and the hot subset of which is copied to the promote devices for performance."